If you follow technology through social media, you've probably heard of Mashable, a rapidly growing news blog that covers social tech. Last month, a new social network emerged, bearing a similar, Seuss-sounding name: Hashable.
Since you've got so many Twitters and Tumblrs, TechCrunches and PopCrunches, and Wordles and Squirtles (isn't...
Posted October 30, 2010 | 12:45:37 (EST)
From Twilight to World War Z to the X-Files to AMC's new show, The Walking Dead, today's pop culture is teeming with the undead. For those needing a little clarification on what's up with the zombie thing these days, here are a few grisly venn diagrams to clear things up:
...Posted September 11, 2010 | 14:41:28 (EST)
Newspapers and currency are going digital, so is it any surprise that farming is, too?
A representative of Zynga, the social game company behind 4 of the top 5 top Facebook apps of the moment, said this week that the 60 million players of its virtual farming game, FarmVille, have...
Posted September 3, 2010 | 18:42:02 (EST)
When entrepreneur Juan Diego Calle asked the Colombian government to let him sell their Internet real-estate, he knew it was a long shot. The Harvard-educated Colombian native was battling over only two letters of the alphabet, but his request was tall: Let me commercialize the nation's Internet identity.
Posted August 31, 2010 | 10:38:21 (EST)
Since Apple released the iPad in April 2010, three million people people have dropped $499 (or more) to get their hands on one. Many bought it believing that iPad would be the future of book and magazine consumption. And publishers quickly began pumping out iPad editions of their products.
So...
Posted August 30, 2010 | 14:58:30 (EST)
The social news site Digg.com released its new interface this week, along with changes to its algorithm. In case you're not sure what's changed, the following graphic breaks it down:
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Shane Snow is a writer and web entrepreneur in New York...
Posted August 17, 2010 | 14:39:38 (EST)
As a web entrepreneur, I'm free to work wherever I want. Though I typically put in twice the hours I'd prefer to, I get to choose which 80 hours a week I want to work.
That flexibility, somehow, led me to decide to become a part-time actor.
To be honest,...
Posted August 6, 2010 | 18:16:29 (EST)
Amazon recently announced that its June 2010 Kindle e-book sales nearly doubled its hardcover book sales (180% higher). Many of those e-books were self-published books priced under a dollar; however, data indicates e-books may become the dominant long-form format in not too many years.
Are low-overhead e-books better for authors...
Posted January 19, 2011 | 18:01:29 (EST)